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It’s 2am and you’re reconciling data. Something’s off, and it’s hard to tell where. I wrote about how to cut data reconciliations by 90% before, but here’s a different spin on reconciliations: look at it from creation to display. What you need to do is jump from the end of the problem to the beginning of the problem. Here’s my suggestion on how to do this:
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is used all the time, we just don’t think about it in these terms. While there are 7 layers to the model we don’t always need to use all of them. Using the process is what is most important
This happens all the time; you get a set of data and you realize that whatever category is there, is wrong. Here’s a video showing how to re-categorize the data quickly and easily. It uses a few formulas, and we have videos showing those in detail.
This podcast can be found in iTunes by searching for “Business Intelligence Podcast” in this 22 minute show we cover: How to better present your purpose by switching the order, how OLAP can unclutter your job, and how we saved someone’s life by figuring out how to count colored rows in Excel.
If you’ve had a spreadsheet with many rows colored and other rows left uncolored, then you realize that there is no easy button to sort or count rows that have color. This can be a very time consuming process, unless you use Visual Basic. Here’s one solution that we’ve come up with.
As a Business Intelligence professional you need to know how to make a good chart in Excel. A good chart can “land” you the client, separate you from other vendors, or make your message to management extremely persuasive. This VIDEO shows you EXACTLY how to create good Microsoft Excel charts. Here is part 3 of a 3 part series on how to create compelling charts in Excel.
Change is hard for people. People spend over half of their energy just trying to keep things the same. Then came “the new” Excel. Here are our favorite new features..
You get a new data file and the numbers are close, but slightly different from the other file you already had. Suddenly, you’ve got two different sets of data. Now you have to spend two hours matching things up. Let’s use three steps and make this project a ten minute exercise.
Discuss the purpose of the Business Intelligence Reporting Community, Comparative Advantage, and the Excel formula everyone should know.
A good chart can “land” you the client, separate you from other vendors, or make your message to management extremely persuasive. This VIDEO shows you EXACTLY how to create good Microsoft Excel charts. Here is part 2 of a 3 part series on how to create compelling charts in Excel.